What´s New in version 2.7.154:

• Bug fix: pressing tab in a private message window would cause application to crash; cause: regression introduced in v2.7.152.

What´s New in version 2.7.151:

• Bug fix: parts of the program data stored in XML files are not read correctly resulting in favourites and window appearance customization not working; cause: regression introduced in v2.7.147 due to bug in core library changes (NoFussXML).

What´s New in version 2.7.146:

• New feature: incorporated improvements to networking code.
• Legal: Removed accidental and unnecessary dependency on GPL'd code (crc32).

What´s New in version 2.7.145:

• Bugfix: displaying right-to-left text could cause a crash.

What´s New in version 2.7.144:

• Bugfix: several toolbar buttons would remain disabled; cause: v2.7.143 appears to be a corrupt build/installation.

What´s New in version 2.7.143:

• Bugfix (minor): some animated GIFs would animate too slowly; frames with a frame duration of 0 are now displayed for 50ms rather than 1 second.

What´s New in version 2.7.142:

• New feature (minor): "/timer" (no arguments) will now display usage of the /timer command.

What´s New in version 2.7.141:

• New feature: timers added; see the user guide for details of usage.

What´s new in this version 2.7.140:

• Bugfix (minor): channel key would not be remembered for use when rejoining a channel after a server reconnect.

What´s new in this version 2.7.139:

• Bugfix (minor): if "Open channel window immediately" option was enabled channel keys could not be used in auto-joins (cause: regression introduced in v2.7).

What´s New in version 2.7.138:

• Bugfix (minor): contacts could be erroneously removed from the contacts control.

What´s New in version 2.7.137:

• RELEASE PULLED.

What´s New in version 2.7.136:

• Bugfix (minor): servers which sent blank MOTD messages caused the application to display error (assert) dialog boxes.

What´s New in version 2.7.135:

• Bugfix (minor): passing user masks to the /ignore and /unignore commands resulted in incorrect behaviour.

What´s New in version 2.7.134:

• New feature (minor): away messages are now properly formatted and appear in the active window if appropriate.
• New feature (minor): channel "no such service" messages are now sent to the channel window instead of the server window if available; this includes the message relating to sending colour codes to a channel with +c mode set.

What's New in version 2.7.133:

• New feature (minor): /open command added which opens a new console window and connects to the given server. Usage: /open [:] [] []

What's New in version 2.7.132:

• Bugfix (minor): possible upload/download speed reduction when certain (modal) dialogs were displayed.

What's New in version 2.7.131:

• Bugfix (minor): displaying of scrollback logs was slow/erratic (cause: regression introduced in v2.7.128).

What's New in version 2.7.130:

• Bugfix (minor): previous bugfix included a change that may reduce GUI responsiveness slightly.

What's New in version 2.7.129:

• Bugfix: network traffic would not be processed or be processed erratically whilst a modal dialog was displayed (cause: regression introduced in v2.7.128).

What's New in version 2.7.128:

• Bugfix (minor): GUI would become unresponsive if a /who command was issued in a channel with lots of users.

What's New in version 2.7.127:

• Bugfix (minor): fixed spelling mistake ("Properites" instead of "Properties").

What's New in version 2.7.126:

• Bugfix (minor): scripting related change introduced a bug whereby unused suspended threads were created and not destroyed (regression introduced in v2.7.124).

What's New in version 2.7.125:

• Bugfix (minor): previous change had a minor defect in implementation that did not appear to manifest any problems.

What's New in version 2.7.124:

• New feature: option to turn on word wrapping and min/max line number specification for the input box added.

What's New in version 2.7.123:

• Bugfix (minor): adding a keyword containing word delimiter characters whilst "Whole word only" is unchecked would result in multiple sub-keywords being added.

What´s New in version 2.7.122:

• Bugfix (minor): fixed a spelling mistake in one of the options dialogs.

What´s New in version 2.7.121:

• Bugfix (minor): if window flashing was disabled for a window the tab for that window would not indicate that there were unread messages.

What´s New in version 2.7.120:

• Bugfix (minor): clicking on irc:// links would not join the given channel if connection to the given server failed and auto connection to another server in the same network succeeded.

What´s New in version 2.7.119:

• Bugfix (minor/cosmetic): spoiler text could be visible if text outline was enabled.

What´s New in version 2.7.118:

• New feature (minor): a sound can now be played on receipt of a CTCP request, configurable in the "Miscellaneous" options dialog.

What's New in version 2.7.117:

• Internal (minor refactor): minor code quality improvement to IRC engine including changes to prepare for scripting.

What's New in version 2.7.116:

• Bugfix (minor/cosmetic): user activity popup could be slow to redraw (possible cause: previous bugfixes related to scrollback log processing).

What's New in version 2.7.115:

• Bugfix (minor/optimization): improved quality of keyword matching code.

What´s New in version 2.7.114:

• Bugfix (minor/optimization): tweaked GUI responsiveness whilst processing scrollback logs.
• Bugfix (minor): mouse cursor was not the standard arrow and small hourglass whilst processing scrollback logs in DCC chat windows.

What´s New in version 2.7.113:

• Bugfix: application would slow down more/become more unresponsive depending on how many windows were open whilst processing scrollback logs.

What´s New in version 2.7.112:

• Bugfix: application user interface would be unusable (lockup) whilst processing scrollback logs for DCC chat windows.

What's New in version 2.7.111:

• New feature (minor): changed the appearance of the "spoiler text" box.

What's New in version 2.7.110:

• New feature (minor): "spoiler text" is now surrounded by a box to indicate its presence which might otherwise not be obvious.
• Bugfix (minor): certain text would not display correctly in "Text Effects" dialog and theme preview control (cause: regression introduced in v2.7.106).

What´s New in version 2.7.109:

• New feature (minor): holding down the "Alt Gr" key now reveals "spoiler text".

What´s new in version 2.7.108:

• Bugfix (minor): some text elements in the "Edit Theme" dialog would not display correctly (cause: regression introduced in v2.7.106).

What´s new in version 2.7.107:

• Bugfix (minor): some text elements in the "Edit Theme" dialog would not display correctly (cause: regression introduced in v2.7.106).

What´s new in version 2.7.106:

• Bugfix (minor): text displayed with the same colour as the background colour was invisible whilst text formatted to be invisible (spoiler text) was not; the reverse is now true.

What´s new in version 2.7.105:

• RELEASE PULLED (bugfix contained a regression).

What's New in version 2.7.104:

• New feature (minor): Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down now perform single line scrolling of the channel/window text control.

What's New in version 2.7.103:

• Bugfix (minor/cosmetic): if a user's full name contained formatting codes WHOIS information for that user would display incorrectly (closing parenthesis could be incorrectly formatted).

What's New in version 2.7.102:

• Bugfix (minor): nicknames containing non-ASCII characters in the range 0x80 to 0xFF were not supported causing problems on some networks (e.g. RusNet).

What's New in version 2.7.101:

• Bugfix (minor): a channel part message could be erroneously sent to the server when closing a channel to which the user is not currently joined.

What's New in version 2.7.100:

• Bugfix: chat (DCC) scrollback logs did not display correctly (cause: regression introduced in v2.7.49).

What's New in version 2.7.99:

• Bugfix: failure to connect to remote user (DCC) did not display an error message box.
• New feature (minor): attempted "Reverse / Firewall DCC" (currently unsupported) is now flagged to the user.

What's New in version 2.7.98:

• Bugfix: previous bugfix had a crash causing regression.

What's New in version 2.7.97:

• Bugfix (minor): paragraph spacing could function incorrectly in column mode if format spans (for example due to crazy colours) were present.

What's New in version 2.7.96:

• Bugfix (minor): clicking in the text buffer window would remove focus from the input box.

What's New in version 2.7.95:

• Bugfix (minor): it was not possible to change the topic of a channel using the "Channel Properties" dialog if the user was not a channel operator.

What's New in version 2.7.94:

• Bugfix (minor): if the user selected in the user list leaves the channel an adjacent user could then be automatically selected to whom an action could erroneously be performed (via right-click menu).

What's New in version 2.7.93:

• New feature (minor): window now flashes when a keyword is detected.

What´s New in version 2.7.92:

• New feature (minor): hovering mouse over contacts now displays user information (if available).

What´s New in version 2.7.91:

• Bugfix (minor): program would crash when dismissing a popup menu when the menu's associated window was closed.

What´s New in version 2.7.90:

• Bugfix (minor): mouse cursor could be a hand instead of an arrow whilst displaying a right-click popup menu.

What´s New in version 2.7.89:

• Bugfix: sometimes the replies to automatic WHO requests (for away status and/or user information) are erroneously displayed in the server window.

What´s New in version 2.7.88:

• Bugfix: if a CTCP message was received in addition to other messages from an IRC server then the other messages would not be processed until a further message was received from the IRC server.

What's New in version 2.7.87:

• Bugfix (minor): /all /echo did not echo to all IRC buffers.

What's New in version 2.7.86:

• New feature (minor): you can now use /all with macros (i.e. issue a macro in all IRC connections/buffers).

What's New in version 2.7.85:

• New feature (minor): added /leave command (an alias for /part).

What´s New in version 2.7.84:

• Internal (minor): improved quality of network implementation (possible performance improvement).

What´s New in version 2.7.83:

• New feature (minor): downloading file is now locked (kept open) so explorer file preview or opening the file whilst downloading can no longer cause the download to abort.

What´s New in version 2.7.82:

• Bugfix: files larger than 2GB and smaller than 4GB in size could not be transferred using DCC.
• Bugfix: GUI can become unresponsive or freeze during heavy network I/O.

What´s New in version 2.7.81:

• Bugfix (minor): unread DCC chat status messages were treated as unread normal messages in connection explorer and tab bar leading to unread message indication or erroneous tab flashing.

What´s New in version 2.7.80:

• Bugfix (minor): fixed crash if failed upload is retried after IRC server connection associated with remote user has been closed.

What´s New in version 2.7.79:

• RELEASE PULLED (reason: program version number not updated).

What´s New in version 2.7.78:

• New feature (minor): the upload failure message box now has the option to retry the upload.
• New feature (minor): the upload and download failure message boxes now display the filename of the failed transfer.
• Bugfix (minor): fixed memory leak (file transfer dialog object not deleted).

What´s New in version 2.7.77:

• New feature (minor): the user list control text labels of away users are now displayed dimmed out (previously just the icon was displayed dimmed out).

What´s New in version 2.7.76:

• Bugfix: "Window/New Window" no longer functioned. Cause: regression introduced in v2.7.75.

What´s New in version 2.7.75:

• Bugfix: clicking on items in the connection explorer does not always set focus to the item's window. Cause: regression introduced in v2.7.73.

What's New in version 2.7.74:

• Bugfix (minor): "Reconnected to server" message erroneously displayed the first time a server is connected to. Cause: regression introduced in v2.7.73.

What's New in version 2.7.73:

• New feature (minor): during an auto-join sequence the focus now remains with the first channel joined whilst other channels are auto-joined allowing the user to place their favourite channel at the top of their auto-join list. Feature will only work if the "Open Channel Window Immediately" checkbox in the "Tools/Options/Windows" dialog is checked.

What's New in version 2.7.72:

• Bugfix (minor): opening a private message window (outgoing) did not use existing user information (if available) for contact matching purposes.

What's New in version 2.7.71:

• Bugfix (minor): any pre-existing private message window appearance settings would not be updated with matching contact information.

What's New in version 2.7.70:

• New feature (minor): private message windows are now aware of contacts; they will display using the same appearance settings if the user changes their nickname but still matches in the contact list; the contact name (if present and different to the nickname) will be displayed in the private message window title bar.
• New feature (minor): improved contact matching algorithm.

What's New in version 2.7.69:

• Bugfix (minor): previous bugfix caused "Joining #channel..." message to be displayed twice.

What's New in version 2.7.68:

• Bugfix: on a server reconnect existing channel join commands were issued before connection script commands. Cause: regression introduced in v2.7.

What's New in version 2.7.67:

• New feature: the order of auto-joins can now be set using the new "Move Up" and "Move Down" buttons in the "Manage Auto-Joins" dialog.

What's New in version 2.7.66

• Bugfix: fixed possible cause of crashes during program shutdown if user activity pop-up window is visible.

What's New in version 2.7.65

• Bugfix (minor): "Display contact groups" checkbox was displayed truncated in the Miscellaneous Options dialog.

What's New in version 2.7.64

• Bugfix: /whois channel information channel links to which a user's channel mode is prefixed either go to the wrong channel (&#channel and +#channel instead of #channel) or aren't linked at all (~#channel, @#channel, and #channel).
• Bugfix (minor): the @ symbol is missing between the user's ident (~user) and host (my.isp.com) in the whois information. A space is in its place.
• Bugfix (minor): if ERR_NOCHANMODES or ERR_NOSUCHCHANNEL is received and you have not joined the channel any associated channel buffer is now closed.

What's New in version 2.7.63:

• Internal (minor refactor): improved quality of HTTP implementation.
• Bugfix (minor): regression introduced in v2.7.52 HTTP implementation prevented program installer download progress bar from working correctly.

What's New in version 2.7.62:

• Bugfix (minor): fixed minor defect in HTTP implementation that should not have manifested any problems (a case sensitive comparison of the transfer encoding token was incorrectly used).

What's New in version 2.7.61:

• Bugfix: The server list could not always be downloaded from the ClicksAndWhistles server due to lack of support for HTTP "chunked" transfer encoding (support for which has now been added).

What's New in version 2.7.60:

• Bugfix (minor): if server list download was incomplete or corrupt "Server list download successful" message box would be incorrectly displayed.

What's New in version 2.7.59:

• Bugfix (minor): "Remove" and "Properties" buttons in "Manage Keywords and Emoticons" dialog would behave incorrectly if both keyword and emoticon list items have been selected.

What´s New in version 2.7.58:

• Bugfix (minor): regression introduced in v2.7.57 prevented /all /me emote from a server window from working.

What´s New in version 2.7.57:

• Bugfix (minor): /me emote command could be initiated from a server window.
• Bugfix (minor/internal): fixed a defect in the source code which did not appear to manifest any problems.

What´s New in version 2.7.56:

• New feature (minor): Ctrl-T can now be used to minimize to tray.

What´s New in version 2.7.55:

• New feature (minor): /autorejoin [on|off|?] command added which enables the client to automatically rejoin a channel after being kicked.

What´s New in version 2.7.54:

• Bugfix (minor): US language version did not have status bar command indication for "View Log..." and "New Console".
• Bugfix (minor): UK language version displayed incorrect status bar command indication for "View Log...".

What's New in version 2.7.53:

• Bugfix: fixed cause of possible crash during program shutdown. Cause: regression introduced in v2.7.49.

What's New in version 2.7.52:

• New feature (minor): "Group List" renamed to "Contacts", "Group List Entry" renamed to "Contact" and similar related string changes.
• New feature (minor): "New Contact..." menu item added to Contacts control right click menu.

What's New in version 2.7.51:

• Bugfix (minor): some new Twitter code was not disabled (Twitter support not yet ready).

What's New in version 2.7.50:

• New feature: You can now use "Ctrl +" and "Ctrl -" keys to zoom in/out (changes font size).

What's New in version 2.7.49:

• New feature (minor): DCC chat and download dialogs now have keyboard shortcuts "Y", "N" and "I".
• Bugfix: tiling a small background image was too slow.
• Bugfix: blank lines would cause an "assertion" crash when loading scrollback logs.
• Bugfix (minor): DCC chat and download dialogs had more than one default button.
• Bugfix (minor): "/web" command now works from a DCC window even if there are no IRC connections.

What's New in version 2.7.48:

• Bugfix: Closing a notice window tab caused a crash.
• Bugfix (minor): Closing a server window tab when there are no other windows for the connection did not perform a disconnection query if server window was previously hidden.

What's New in version 2.7.47:

• Bugfix (minor): "No such nick" and "No such channel" messages are now sent to relevant window (if it exists) rather than the server window.